We are pleased to announce the Release Candidate phase for GHC 6.8.1.
Snapshots beginning with 6.8.20070909 are release candidates for 6.8.1
You can download snapshots from here:
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/stable/dist/
Right now we have the source bundles:
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/stable/dist/ghc-6.8.20070912-src.tar.bz2http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/stable/dist/ghc-6.8.20070912-src-extralibs.tar.bz2
Only the first of these is necessary. The "extralibs" package contains
various extra packages that we normally supply with GHC - unpack the
extralibs tarball on top of the source tree to add them, and they will
be included in the build automatically.
There is also currently an installer for i386/Windows and binary
distributions for x86_64/Linux and i386/Linux. More may appear later.
Please test as much as possible; bugs are much cheaper if we find them
before the release!
We hope to release in a couple of weeks, but of course that may slip if
problems are uncovered.
Thanks
Ian, on behalf of the GHC team